Re: Mosaic won't uininstall

[Alson van der Meulen <alsonm@linuxfreak.com>]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:01:59PM +0000, jensch@wozzle.dk wrote:
> Hi, I have Mosaic 2.7b5-8.1 on my system.
> 
> When I try to remove it with dselect, I get this:
> 
> running dpkg --pending --remove ...
> (Reading database ... 41009 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing Mosaic ...
> dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute pre-removal script: Exec format error
> dpkg: error processing Mosaic (--remove):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  Mosaic
> dpkg --remove returned error exit status 1.
> 
> I can remove the files manually, but how do I delete it from the list in dselect ?

There's probably something wrong with the pre-removal script, check
the script in /var/lib/dpkg/info/mosaic.prerm for errors, like execute
permissions, wrong header (like #!/bin/bash) and such things.

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